Dopey phone scammers targeting innocent Britons for data and money have got their comeuppance – after blundering into calling a police chief. The fake figures rang Durham Constabulary’s Specials Chief Officer Dale Checksfield and claimed to be from the National Crime Agency.
Veteran Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow will quit at the end of this year after 32 years at the helm of the programme, the broadcaster announced today. The 73-year-old journalist, who has spent 45 years at ITN, will leave the programme
A supermarket employee who showed off his swastika tattoo at work has won his unfair dismissal case after a judge ruled he should have been give a ‘stern warning’ instead. Lidl caretaker Istvan Horvarth won an unfair dismissal claim after the budget
Woman’s Hour is finally going to last an hour: Radio Four programme will be extended from current 45 minutes as bosses praise new presenters Emma Barnett and Anita Rani Flagship BBC radio show will last the full hour for first time in
The number of people developing Covid in England has dropped to another record low in the last week with just over 750 people now falling ill each day. Researchers behind the country’s largest symptom tracking study estimate the daily number of people
Teachers claim they have been left in tears and on their knees with exhaustion after being forced to do pupils’ assessments themselves without any extra pay. Most schools in Britain are setting tests to decide grades after this summer’s GCSEs and A-levels
Environmental activists are calling on a new tunnel under the River Thames to be scrapped despite construction already being underway on the £2billion project – dubbing it London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s ‘dirty little secret’. The Silvertown Tunnel in South East London is
Kent Police colleagues of a murdered PCSO are today desperately hunting for her killer and a weapon as heartbroken officers paid tribute to their fallen comrade, promising her: ‘Your duty is done. We will take it from here’. The message from the ‘guys
Vaccine passports: Vine caller says Boris Johnson is ‘tyrannical’ Romanian Cristian Terhes said the plans to restart travel between member states would be a “mass violation of individual rights and freedoms”. Under the scheme, travellers’ jab, test and antibodies status will be
The release of the long-awaited Russia report this week revealed the grip the country has on the UK, from PR firms, charities, political interests, academia and cultural institutions. The Intelligence and Security Committee of MPs warned that ‘Russian influence in the UK is